scholarly journals A Case Study into the Safety Compliance within the Road Freight Transport Sector with Regards to Securing Cargo

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. F43-F48
Author(s):  
Ján Ližbetin ◽  
Mária Stopková
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Road ◽  
Safety Compliance ◽  
Road Freight

This article deals with the issue of safety within the road freight transport sector with regards to the securing of cargo on a vehicle. The first part of the article focuses on the legal framework that regulates this issue in the Czech Republic. The second part is based on a case study and survey conducted among drivers of the road freight transport vehicles into their awareness of what they understand is meant by securing and secure cargo. The case study was carried out in a specific transport company and includes an analysis of the current situation and concrete measures for improving safety while securing timber for transport.

scholarly journals Study on a Brain-Controlled Pneumatic Actuator to Assist Emergency Braking of a Vehicle

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. F49-F57
Author(s):  
Ryszard Dindorf ◽  
Jakub Takosoglu ◽  
Piotr Wos
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Road ◽  
Emergency Braking ◽  
Road Freight

This article deals with the issue of safety within the road freight transport sector with regards to the securing of cargo on a vehicle. The first part of the article focuses on the legal framework that regulates this issue in the Czech Republic. The second part is based on a case study and survey conducted among drivers of the road freight transport vehicles into their awareness of what they understand is meant by securing and secure cargo. The case study was carried out in a specific transport company and includes an analysis of the current situation and concrete measures for improving safety while securing timber for transport.

scholarly journals How Will Digitalization Change Road Freight Transport? Scenarios Tested in Sweden

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 304
Author(s):  
Anna Pernestål ◽  
Albin Engholm ◽  
Marie Bemler ◽  
Gyözö Gidofalvi
Keyword(s):  
Freight Transport ◽  
Sustainable Transportation ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Strategic Uncertainty ◽  
Scenario Development ◽  
Service Levels ◽  
Urban Freight ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Freight ◽  
On The Road

Road freight transport is a key function of modern societies. At the same time, road freight transport accounts for significant emissions. Digitalization, including automation, digitized information, and artificial intelligence, provide opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and increase service levels in road freight transport. Digitalization may also radically change the business ecosystem in the sector. In this paper, the question, “How will digitalization change the road freight transport landscape?” is addressed by developing four exploratory future scenarios, using Sweden as a case study. The results are based on input from 52 experts. For each of the four scenarios, the impacts on the road freight transport sector are investigated, and opportunities and barriers to achieving a sustainable transportation system in each of the scenarios are discussed. In all scenarios, an increase in vehicle kilometers traveled is predicted, and in three of the four scenarios, significant increases in recycling and urban freight flows are predicted. The scenario development process highlighted how there are important uncertainties in the development of the society that will be highly important for the development of the digitized freight transport landscape. One example is the sustainability paradigm, which was identified as a strategic uncertainty.

scholarly journals Issues Concerning Declared Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of FAME Biofuels

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ján Ližbetin ◽  
Martina Hlatká ◽  
Ladislav Bartuška
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ◽  
Greenhouse Gas ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Gas Emissions ◽  
The Road ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Road Freight

The paper deals with the issue of greenhouse gas emissions that are produced by the road freight transport sector. These emissions affect the structure of the ozone layer and contribute to the greenhouse effect that causes global warming-issues that are closely associated with changing weather patterns and extreme weather events. Attention is drawn to the contradictions linked to FAME (Fatty Acid Methyl Esters) biofuels, namely the fact that although their use generates almost zero greenhouse gas emissions, their production requires high levels of energy consumption. The first part of the paper deals with the theoretical basis of the negative impacts of transport on the environment and the subsequent measurement of the extent of the harmful emissions generated by the road freight transport sector. In the methodical part of the paper, the calculation procedures and declared energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions generated by transport services are analyzed according to the EN 16258 standard. The experimental part of the paper focuses on the application of the methodology to a specific shipment on a specified transport route, where the total energy consumption and production of greenhouse gas emissions is determined. These calculations are based on comprehensive studies carried out for a particular transport company that assigned the authors the task of determining to what extent the declared energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions change when the type of fuel used is changed.

scholarly journals Modeling and trends of road transport development in eastern european countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 285-292
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Harkava ◽  
Olena Pylypenko ◽  
Oleksandr Haisha ◽  
Armen Aramyan ◽  
Volodymyr Kairov
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
The Road ◽  
Original Language ◽  
Road Freight ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of the research is as follows: analysis of the current state of functioning of the road transport sector in Eastern Europe and identification of key problems and trends in its development. Research methods: Methods of grouping, comparison and generalization, сorrelation analysis have been used to identify the dynamics of the main indicators of road transport in Eastern Europe. The method of correlation-regression analysis has been applied to determine the impact of increasing the length of roads on the turnover of the road freight transport and the number of employed population in this area. Results. It has been found that the increase in the employed population by 96% and increase in revenues from transportation and storage of goods, postal and courier services (turnover of the road freight transport - in the original language) in the field of road transport by 82% is explained by the change in transport infrastructure capacity by increasing length of highways.    

scholarly journals To team up or not: single versus team driving in European road freight transport

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asvin Goel ◽  
Thibaut Vidal ◽  
Adrianus Leendert Kok
Keyword(s):  
Road Transport ◽  
Freight Transport ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
The Road ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Road Freight ◽  
Tremendous Amount ◽  
Trucking Companies ◽  
Or Team

AbstractThe last decades have seen a tremendous amount of research being devoted to effectively managing vehicle fleets and minimizing empty mileage. However, in contrast to, e.g., the air transport sector, the question of how to best assign crews to vehicles, has received very little attention in the road transport sector. The vast majority of road freight transport in Europe is conducted by single drivers and team driving is often only conducted if there are special circumstances, e.g., security concerns. While it is clear that transport companies want to avoid the costs related to additional drivers, vehicles manned by a single driver sit unused whenever the driver takes a mandatory break or rest. Team drivers, on the other hand, can travel a much greater distance in the same amount of time, because mandatory breaks and rests are required less frequently. This paper investigates under which conditions trucking companies should use single or team driving to maximize their profitability. We present a novel optimization approach for simultaneously optimizing routes and crewing decisions and provide experimental evidence that, for a wide range of cost factors, operating a fleet with a mix of team and single drivers can significantly reduce operational costs when compared to typical profit margins in the sector.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence for Cluster Analysis: Case Study of Transport Companies in Czech Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 411
Author(s):  
Eva Kalinová
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Financial Analysis ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Accounting Data ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Kohonen Networks ◽  
Further Development

What is the situation of the transport sector in the Czech Republic and what is its importance for the economy of the Czech Republic? How and to what extent do businesses operating in this sector influence the sector as such, and how many businesses in this sector have such influence? Additionally, what happens if the most important businesses in the transport sector go bankrupt, and which businesses are the most important ones? Searching for the answers to these questions is a subject of this contribution, focusing primarily on the cluster analysis using artificial neural networks (ANN), specifically with Kohonen networks, which represent the main method for processing a large volume of not only accounting data on transport companies. In this research, the dataset consists of the financial statements of transport companies for the years 2015–2018. The research part of the contribution deals mainly with the issue of the transport sector’s development in the years 2015–2018 with the companies operating in this sector and tries to identify the most important companies in terms of their importance for this sector. The results show that the whole transport sector is influenced mainly by the two largest companies, whose potential changes can affect companies themselves but to a great extent also the development of the whole transport sector. For the two companies, financial analysis is carried out using ratios, whose results show that despite the negative values of the important value generators of one of these companies, the company is still able to significantly influence the situation in the transport sector of the CR. This information is a clear guide for experts, development analysts, to determine the further development of the whole sector when focusing on the development of the two specific companies only. A question arises as to how the created model can be applied to other economic sectors, especially in other EU countries.

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